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Hamburg Farms, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Los Banos census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93622. The Survey maps it on the Charleston School quadrangle. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Hamburg Farms within Merced County

Then and now

1913 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hamburg Farms, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Hamburg Farms, surveyed 1913

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28,081 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined64
Equipment and vehicle use49
Debris and open burning14
Arson/incendiarism10
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Smoking1.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
9 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitI-5
8 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMerced-Mariposa UnitNEES
8 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMerced-Mariposa UnitWOO
4 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionERRECA REST STOP / I5 S
3 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresPlumas National ForestCUTLER
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreFresno-Kings UnitFKU # 10578
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined270 acresCentral California DistrictLAGUNA

Every fire recorded in Merced County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hamburg Farms: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
I5 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationDiatomiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Merced County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Dos Palos8.3 miles20
Brito8.3 miles20
Gadwall (historical)9.8 miles15
Dos Palos10.3 miles20
Abbato (historical)12.5 miles15
Los Banos13.2 miles15
Dos Palos Y13.5 miles17
Santa Rita Park14.6 miles18

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q5644295The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 224830. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.